File photo: Jonathan Bacon leaving the Surrey Provincial Court house April 7, 2009. Bacon was shot to death outside a Kelowna casino on Aug. 14, 2011, the second attempt on his life after surviving a shooting in September of 2006.

Photograph by: Sam Leung
, For The Province

Residents of a quiet Abbotsford cul de sac are reeling with fear and anger after a neighbour was gunned down in his driveway minutes after adults and children on the street had gone inside for the evening.

"I started hearing shots and I hit the deck and I threw [my five-year-old son] on the floor," said one neighbour who, like others who lived on the upper-middle class street, didn't want his name used.

He said that all but two of the half-million-dollar homes on the small street have school-age children and that there's an elementary school a half-block away.

He and his children and others had been outside playing and socializing 15 minutes before the 8:15 p.m. Thursday shooting that sent a man to hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.

After hearing the shots and seeing a 1980s white Toyota speed away with two people inside, the neighbour said he and others went to the aid of the victim, who he said was shot four or five times, including in the head, neck and shoulder.

"He thought he was going to die. He said 'I'm dead, I'm dead.'

One neighbour's home was hit with six stray bullets, including one through the front door.

"They didn't care who saw them. They didn't care who they hit," said the resident. "My kid could have been riding her bike up the hill at that time. I won't let my children play out front. My son asked me, 'Are they going to come back?'"

Police wouldn't release the name of the victim yesterday and would only say he was "very well-known to police." Sgt. Mark Shulz said he was "amazingly, still alive" and in critical condition yesterday.

Several neighbours identified the victim as Jonathan Bacon, 25. They said he lived in the home with his parents and two brothers and didn't associate with neighbours.

The owners of the house are listed as David and Susan Bacon. An elderly woman who answered the phone in the basement suite said her son lived upstairs. A phone line upstairs invited callers to leave a message for "Dave and Sue" or "the boys."

Neighbours said it's the second shooting at the home. About four years ago, police investigated a series of shots heard by neighbours that left a number of bullets in a vehicle in the driveway.

Bacon was charged last year with eight weapons-related offences and possession for the purpose of trafficking after Abbotsford police seized drugs, $100,000 and weapons including machine guns in a bust of what they called a high-level drug-trafficking centre.

Bacon was also involved in a mysterious helicopter crash last year that killed Christina Alexander, 22, and was piloted by her boyfriend, Dustin Haugen. The search warrant included documentation that Bacon paid $1,000 a month to fly a helicopter from the property where it crashed.

Haugen, 24, was in jail earlier this year as a suspect in an international drug smuggling ring that allegedly used helicopters to air-lift marijuana into the U.S.

Another neighbour on the street said there's a steady stream of "the most expensive-looking cars I've ever seen in my life coming and going" from the house.

And a third neighbour who recalled hearing shots on Thursday in "rapid and close succession" is thankful bystanders weren't hurt.

"You certainly wonder if it could have been worse," he said. "I can probably speak for the rest of the cul de sac when I say if he doesn't move soon, the rest of us are going to move, even if we have to take a loss."

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File photo: Jonathan Bacon leaving the Surrey Provincial Court house April 7, 2009. Bacon was shot to death outside a Kelowna casino on Aug. 14, 2011, the second attempt on his life after surviving a shooting in September of 2006.

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